The presenter was Don Cooper, who was known as “The Alaska Lumberjack”. As best as I can recall the model T adventure started with Don and his brother Dennis building a rustic camper on an abandoned Model T chassis on his farm in Montana then taking off on a tour. In addition to spectacular western states scenery there was a healthy dose of humor in the travelogue. The camper was more a cabin on the back of the T than a camper in a couple scenes they had too much weight in the back causing the front wheels to come off the ground. Another sequence they took the tires off and ran it on for some miles on railroad tracks.
Don Cooper had a couple dozen travelogue shows about an hour long mostly from the US and Canada. This was the only one with the model T. If this was a current production I would suspect the whole T camper was a prop they trailered around for photo ops, but these were pretty low budget affairs all filmed with a silent 16mm movie camera. Also at the time T’s were half the age they are now.
Did a Google search - found it was a supposed to be 22 T and the attached (low resolution) photo of the T camper on the railroad tracks. Perhaps the show is available for sale, but the website looks very old (the programs are available on VHS or CD).
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